1657 in music
# 1657 in music

The year 1657 in music involved some significant events.

## Events

* March 11 – Johann Adam Reincken becomes organist of the Bergkerk at Deventer.
* July 17 – Following the death of Tobias Michael in June, Sebastian Knüpfer is appointed Thomaskantor at Leipzig.
* Maurizio Cazzati becomes the Maestro di Cappella at San Petronio in Bologna and opens his violin school in Bologna.
* King Louis XIV of France engages Étienne Richard as royal harpsichord teacher, in place of Jacques Champion de Chambonnières.

## Popular music

* Gaspar de Verlit – Anthology of Christmas carols

## Classical music

* Henri Dumont – Meslanges à 2, 3, 4 et 5 parties
* Joannes Florentius a Kempis – Cantiones Natalitiae
* Giovanni Legrenzi – Salmi a cinque
* Heinrich Schütz
   * 12 Geistliche Gesänge, Op.13
   * Herr, nun lässest du deinen Diener, SWV 432-433
* Barbara Strozzi – Ariette a voce sola, Op.6

## Opera

* Francesco Cavalli – Artemisia
* Michel de La Guerre – Triomphe de l'Amour sur les Bergers et les Bergères (sung in 1655, but first staged as an opera in 1657)

## Births

* March 18 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, organist and composer (died 1743)
* July 25 – Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, composer (died 1714)
* December 15 – Michel Richard Delalande, French composer and organist (died 1726)
* probable – Gaetano Greco, composer (died c.1728)

## Deaths

* March – John Hilton the younger, lutenist and composer (born c.1599)
* March 26 – Jacob van Eyck, nobleman and musician (born c.1590)
* June 26 – Tobias Michael (born 1592)
* October 21 – Alessandro Costantini (born c. 1581)
* October 23 – Domenico Massenzio, Italian composer (born 1586)
* date unknown
   * Franciszek Lilius, composer (born c. 1600)
   * Pietro Paolo Sabbatini, composer (born 1600)
